To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom.

Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.

It is better to make a mistake with full force of your being than to carefully avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit.

To know, is to know that you know nothing.

Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

He is the richest who is content with the least.